nobody outside of the diehard ride or die MAGA are still with him

This does not seem to be what the polls suggest at all. If she wins, it looks like it’s going to be closer than 2020. He’s beating his numbers with most non-white demographics already.

Meanwhile, an entire US state is basically floating away from record-shattering hurricane storm surge.

The Invitation (2015) seems to fit the bill.

Is it close enough to / surrounded by enough land to develop currents, temperatures, and thermohaline circulation patterns that are distinct from the closest ocean? Then it’s a sea.

You’re not getting paid for this. You’re not even a volunteer. You’re doing this (presumably) for recreational purposes–because it makes you feel good. You don’t owe anyone anything. Disengage when you’re not getting what you want out of it.

I started this two days ago on your recommendation, and it’s great. I’ve read some of Mievelle’s fiction and enjoyed it, but was somehow unaware of this. Really enjoying it. Thanks, comrade.

One thing that I’m constantly forgetting about octopuses is that they have more than two limbs. Also, I am a super scientist.

Get yourself a partner who looks at you like RFK Jr. looks at rotting meat he found on the ground.

MST3K was so impactful on me growing up. That and Star Trek TNG were probably my two biggest media influences as a child. Still do my own Thanksgiving MST3K marathon every year. It slaps.

Mike is definitely the better host, even though he’s a chud.

On the one hand, fuck yeah. On the other hand, a “demand” from the UN is toothless as long as keeps supplying and endorsing the genocide.

That’s at least three 9/11s worth of pizza theft.

Only to the 20th trimester.

1. NWN 2
2. BG3
3. Planescape: Torment

If we’re “flexible” with the definition of D&D games, Owlcat’s two Pathfinder games would be top contenders as well.

Just say no to modal metaphysics

As it turned out, Bush was chosen by the Supreme Court as the vote was so close, particularly in Florida, though Gore won the overall popular vote.

What a clear and persuasive case for the power of voting in America.

It has to do with the power of the signal at different frequencies. White noise is “pure” noise in the sense that it has an equal power at all frequencies. Other colors of noise have different power distributions: blue noise has a power that grows linearly with the frequency, pink noise has a power that’s inversely proportional to frequency, etc. The color names come from what you get if you map the same power/frequency distribution onto light instead of sound.

Yeah you’d think realizing “I only am who I am as a result of the material circumstances of my birth, which I did not choose for myself” would engender some humility and empathy, and yet.

There are lots of hypotheticals that feel like they should be possible or imaginable, but which turn out to not be when you really think carefully about them. My favorite example to use in the classroom: imagine that while you’re asleep tonight, the distance between every single thing in the universe doubles. When you wake up in the morning, everything is twice as far apart, but you’re also twice the size! In addition, the tick marks on your rulers and all other measurement devices are twice as far apart, so all your measurements agree with measurements you took the day before. Therefore, the change is indiscernible.

This is a story that (to most people) feels consistent and imaginable at first, but that a little inspection will show is not (if the distance between things changed but fundamental forces behave the same way, we’re going to have a bad time). Our intuitive judgement about what we can and cannot consistently imagine is extremely unreliable, and should not be trusted to do any philosophical heavy lifting. I think the people who are saying “I can easily imagine being me, but born in a different place, time, body, and material circumstance” are making a similar kind of error.